Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the growing disillusionment of the Spanish experience in 1937 , Nizan was led inexorably to incredulity and disbelief during the Munich crisis of September 1938 , and ultimately to bewilderment and total despair following the Nazi-Soviet pact and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 . |
| 2 | Though it looks painfully obvious described so baldly , this scheme is wonderfully successful in dramatising the way in which life gradually closes in on Peter , driving him inexorably to madness and suicide . |
| 3 | Glaxo shed 2p to 618p , Zeneca went 3p better to 756p and SmithKline Beecham dipped 3p to 455p . |
| 4 | ‘ Goodnight , O , ’ and then she turned suddenly to Boy and said to him , very pointedly : |
| 5 | This owes much to McKeown and Lowe who suggested that socioeconomic and environmental circumstances are the prime determinants of longevity . |
| 6 | The quatrain poems bind up such sympathies with a way of thinking which owed much to anthropology and Eliot 's growing wish to include in his work the worlds of both the savage and the city . |
| 7 | The general massing and arrangement of the building , with steeply roofed corner pavilions and a high central portion , crowned by a turret between two further pavilions , although taller , owed much to Godde and Lesueur 's extension to the Paris Hôtel de Ville of 1837–49 . |
| 8 | Much to mummy and daddy 's despair , none of them are showing any inclination to . |
| 9 | I think there is a case , especially , and not so much with the letters because there is a minimal amount of , of secretarial work , but with something like that I think you would really do with somebody who 's just there basically to type and |
| 10 | I think perhaps I should talk to Connor first , so he can break the news gently to Patrick and Mary . |
| 11 | Today it is often a top-cross sire in dairy and suckler herds , especially to Friesians and Holsteins . |
| 12 | Schools should certainly be accountable , especially to parents and pupils , but one of the dangers of such a competitive approach to education is that the benefits of cooperation between schools and across LEAs will be lost . |
| 13 | Macca kept playing brilliant balls to the wings , especially to Wallace and Kelly ( who improves every game , is bionic and will be a star ) . |
| 14 | I would just like to say a few , a few things to er especially to Rupert and Mr David er without their help and cooperation we would never have had such er , er nev would never have started this project erm we thank you very much . |
| 15 | In New York City the focus is on the approximately $171 million budget of New York City 's Department of Cultural Affairs , distributed annually to museums and other institutions . |
| 16 | Pupils must be persuaded to turn naturally to books and other resources and hence appreciate the cardinal importance of the Library/Resource Centre and libraries in general . |
| 17 | Masie had responded brilliantly to treatment and seemed fighting fit . |
| 18 | Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries , but both are near enough to fitness and form . |
| 19 | Beyond the farm , track dips down to gate and bends left . |
| 20 | At farm keep straight on ( avoiding half right turn down to gate and sharp left turn uphill ) to gate with yellow marker , and continue on well-trodden paths into woods . |
| 21 | And by the morning of the next bio-day , Posi had brought the ship 's speed down to Firstlight and we were sliding through the system that contained Vadinamia . |
| 22 | Our Liberal colleagues go down to Leamington and ask the audience to believe that they are just as Liberal as ever they were . |
| 23 | In July 1950 he asked her to drive down to Cambridgeshire and collect his son from boarding school . |
| 24 | At 2am on Friday , opinion pollsters , who led everyone to take their eyes off the ball , were cut down to size and shown up for what they are : a waster of money |
| 25 | Should cut the gentlemen on Foggy Bottom , or wherever , down to size and make them a mite more civil and cooperative in future . |
| 26 | If they have n't got it well He said if , I can always cut it down to size and that . |
| 27 | But when Roland Jarvis — Jim Leng 's predecessor as chief executive — took over in 1984 , he instituted a programme of rationalisations and disposals to focus Bonar 's diverse interests down to packaging and specialist materials . |
| 28 | She determine not to be put off by her first failure , but to go on doing things to Mary Lou so that in the end the class would have to put the tricks down to Alicia and Daryl . |
| 29 | When he got down to Punctuality and Considerateness as a Driver , he decided to give up and improvise . |
| 30 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |